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ELECTRIC TIME AND SIGNAL RECORDER.

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ELECTRIC TIME AND SIGNAL RECORDER.

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CHARLES E. ONGLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE J. SCHOEFFEL, OF SAME PLACE.

SIGNAL RECORDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,083, dated February 4, 1896.

Application filed December 8,1893.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. ONG-LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Electric Signal-Recording Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for the recording of electrical signals, together with the time at which said signals are made.

I have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front view in elevation with part of the clock-face broken away to show the mechanism more fully. Fig. 2 is a detail view of part of the mechanism. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken through the center of the shaft 0. Fig. i is a perspective view showing the printing-belt. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of a dash-pot or retarding device for controlling the circuit-breakers. Fig. 6 is an elevation from the rear with the back plate removed. Fig. '7 is a diagrammatic view showing the circuit .connections to the magnet 13. Fig. 8 shows the circuit connections to the magnet D, and Fig. 9 illustrates a piece of tape with a number of signals recorded thereon by my apparatus.

A is a clock-m ovement in any of the usual forms, and a is the shaft operating the minute-hand.

a is a pinion secured to the shaft.

a is a pulley suitably mounted, and about the pinion a and the pulley a is the printin gbelt a carrying on its surface type designating the time. The inside of the belt is preferably corrugated to mesh with the teeth of the pinion a. The figures on this printing-belt a are so arranged that the figures exposed on the lower periphery of the pulley adesignate the time at which the clock may be.

B is an electromagnet in circuit, suitably mounted, The circuit connections to this magnet are shown in Fig. '7, having therein the commutators 7a to 70 and the circuit is controlled by said commutators. This is the form I employ preferably to operate the device, but any other form of circuit-breakers may be employed. These commutators are $erial No. 493,148. (No model.)

intended to be located at stations and the number of makes or breaks of the circuit made thereby to indicate a signal designating such a station.

b is a lever pivoted at b and provided at one end with an armature If for the magnet B. The spring 1/ is secured to the screw Z) and to the lever b and having its tension to draw the armature 17 away from the magnet.

b" and b are adjustable swivels at the end of the lever Z), to which are secured the cords e and c C is a shaft upon which is mounted the type-wheel c. periphery with a series of numbers or characters in the form of type, intended to indicate stations from which a signal may be giventhat is to say, from one to nine and the character zero. It will be hereinafter described how with the making or breaking of the circuit these characters will register the number of such makes or breaks, and thus indicate the station from which the signal may be sent. 0n the same shaft 0 is the ratchet-wheel c and also the pinion 0 both of which are secured to the shaft 0.

c is a lever pivoted to the lever b at 1'. It is provided with the pawl z" and hook c and arm 0 and pin c is a lever pivoted at e and provided with the pawl 1 the pin 0 at one end engaging the lever 0* and the hook at the other end.

0 is a spring having its tension between the hook c and the screw 0".

c is a lever pivoted at c and provided at one end with a hook arranged to engage with the hook c 0 is a quadrant provided on its periphery with teeth 0 This quadrant is pivoted at 0 and has the arm 0 engaging one end of the lever 0 i is a stationary dog preferably made in the form of a fork between the ends of which the lever c operates. Its end is cut at an angle to the lever 0 making an inclined plane which is arranged to engage the pin 0 operating when the lever c is raised, to hold the pawl t" in engagement with the ratchet-wheel c and also to check the movement of the lever 0 when it is being released.

This wheel is provided on its' D is an electroinagnet suitably mounted and in circuit. The circuit connections are shown in Fig. 8.

d is a lever pivoted at (Z and having at one end an armature d for the magnet D.

d" is a printing-hammer carried by the lever d.

d is an arm projecting from the lever cl and provided with the pin (1 to engage the arm 0 of the lever c". The lever d is also bent to admit of its passage around the pulleyfiwhich will be hereinafter described, and is provided with the pawl (Z which is held against the ratchet of the pulley f by the spring d.

E and E are dash-pots or-retarding devices suitably secured at c and e controlling eircuit-breakers in the circuit to the magnet D. They are duplicates and are shown in section in Fig. 5, where the dotted lines indicate the operative position and the dark lines the normal position'thereof.

a is a cylinder closed at one end and having a head a at the other, which is provided with two channels a.

e are valve-stems provided at one end with a ball-valve consisting of a head a having two passages 6", ball c and pin 6 to hold the ball in the valve. This valve is made so that the oil will pass through the same freely as the valve ascends and less freely as it descends.

e are heads secured to the valve-stems c by set-screws e, and c" and c are beveled flanges on said heads.

The valves are sustained by the cords e and c secured to the valve-stems and to the adjustable swivels b and Z2 at the end of the lever b. The dash-pot E is supported in a somewhat more elevated position than E, so that the flange e will engage its contact an interval later than the flange e of the dashpot E. The valve-chamber c" is preferably about two-thirds tilled with oil or other suitable liquid, indicated at 6 F is a spool upon which is wound a tape f.

f is a pulley provided with a ratchet-wheel f, with which engages the pawl (Z The tape passes from the spool F over the printinghammer d" and over the pulley f f" is a split block secured to the frame of the apparatus, which block carries a flat spring, at the end of which is secured a block f carrying a roller. This roller bears on the tape f", holding it against the pulley f so that when said pulley is rotated the tape is fed forward.

G and G are pulleys 011 which is wound an ink-ribbon g which passes between those rollers and under the guides g and g and between the tape f and the type of the printing-belt a and the printing-type of the wheel 0. The pulley G is connected with the shaftof the pulley f by a belt and operates therewith.

H is an insulated base supporting the pens h and 712, which are insulated from one another. base.

h is a trip-lever pivoted at h and carryin a contact-bar W. This trip-le\'*er is arranged to pass between the pens h and h when the contact-bar 7L8 comes in contact with said pens and makes circuit connection, as hereinafter described. 7191s also an insulated base supporting the pens h" and h.

h is a spring carried by the insulated base 7L3.

7r is a trip-lever pivoted at h and having a contact-bar h. This trip-bar is also arranged to pass between the contact-pens 71: and its when the contact-lever it makes circuit connection between said contact-pens.

The circuit connection to the magnet D is de scribed as follows: 00 and at are the main wires in circuit with a source of electrical supply X. 00 is connected with the electromagnetD and :1: with one end of the pen 7& The pen 7L2 is also in circuit connection with the pen 71 The pen is in circuit connection with the pen 7L, and the pen h is in circuit connection with the magnet D. The circuit connections last described are controlled by the movement of flanges c and c on heads as will be hereinafter described.

The operation of my device is as follows: I may either employ an open or closed circuit. I have illustrated the operation of the device in the accompanying drawings as the same may be operated with a closed circuit. It is, however, manifest that the apparatus maybe adjusted to operate either with an open or closed circuit. The position shown in Fig. 1 is that when the circuit is closed to the magnet 13, which is therefore energized, and the armature b is held against the pressure of the spring 12 and pawls t" and 52 are in position to engage the ratchet-wheel 0 I will first describe the operation of what I term the selecting mechanismthat is to say, the mechanism by which the type-wheel is operated to correspond with the makingor breaking of the circuit. 1 have illustrated. the circuit connections to the magnet 13 in the drawings, Fig. 7, and Ihave shown insaid circuitfourcommutators having col'itact-pins arranged to make or break the circuit at predetermined intervals. In Fig. 9 I have shown the record of the signals as the same is printed upon a tape after the operation of the device with the commutators 70 to 7;. It will be noted that the commutator 7thas two contactpoints, thus breaking the circuit twice and recording the figure 2 on the tape. The commutator it has four contact-points and records the figure at on the tape. The commutator 71: has four contact-points, three being together and one aftera space sufficient to enable the mechanisms to operate, making the figures 3 and 1 or 31. The commutator 7t" has The spring h is also secured to said These commutators with this arrangement are simply given for illustration, and it will be manifest that any number of commutators may be in the circuit, and that any numerical arrangement may be had to indicate the operation of any particular commutator. I may also employ a Morse key or any other circuit-breaker.

Suppose now that the commutator k is operated. This will break the circuit to the magnet B twice and in doing so will with each break throw the lever 1) into the power of the spring b thus causing the pawl i to operate the ratchet-wheel and type-wheel c twice, the pawl i holding said ratchet-wheel in position while each step of the ratchetwheel is taken. By this operation the figure 2 on the periphery of the type-wheel c is brought into the printing-fieldthat is, in position on the lower periphery of said typewheel indicating the station where the commutator k is located. The same operation is performed with the commutator the operation being performed four times instead of twice. WVith the operation of the commutators 70 and 7c the same operation is had as last described, with the exception that there is a space between the breaks 3 and 1 of commutator 70 and between the breaks 2 and 4 of commutator 76. It would be well to note also that with the operation last described, whereby the type-wheel is operated, that the quadrant is raised with the operation of the pinion 0 against the weight of said quadrant, which is normally at the beginning of its contact with the pinion 0 as shown in Figs. 3 and 6; and it will also be noted that with the raising of the lever c the pin 0 engages the inclined plane of the stationary dog i and the pawl z" is thereby held against the ratchet-wheel 0 I will now describe the operation of the printing and restoring meohanismsthat is to say, the devices for printing from the typewheel and the time-belt a when the stations are indicated by the signals, as heretofore recited, and at the same time restoring the selee-ting device and type-wheel to their normal position... These printing and restoring devices are controlled by the electromagnet D, and the circuit to said magnet is controlled by the dash-pots E and E as follows: When the circuit is brokensay by the commutator 76*, as heretofore describedthe lever Z) is thrown into the power of the spring 12 and the cords e and 6 attached to the end of said lever, raise the valve-stems e and the ballvalves b The oil in the dash-pots passes through said ball-valves as they are raised. The passage being free there is very little re sistance to the passage of the ball valves through the oil, and with the making of the circuit after the first break the sustainingcords e and 6- become slack and the ballvalves fall again into the oil and descend through the same at a slow rate of speed for the reason, as heretofore recited, that the ball in the valve prevents a rapid passage of the oil through the same, but said valve not being entirely tight it permits the oil to pass through slowly; but it will be seen that the breaking of the circuit twice by the commutator k is intended to be in very rapid succession, so much so that before the ball-valve has time to descend through the oil after the first break the circuit is broken a second time and said valve is again lifted to the first position described, but with the'fin'al breaking of the circuit it will descend, the cords e and 6 being slack, as stated, and with such descent the flanges e and 6 will engage the trip-levers h and h and make the circuit to the magnet Dthat is to say, the flange 6 will first engage the trip-lever h and make the circuit to the magnet D, and an interval later the flange 6 will engage the trip-lever h and make the circuit again to the magnet D.

It has already been described that the dashpot E is arranged to operate an interval in advance of the dash-pot E. When the circuit is first made, therefore, to the magnet D the operation is as follows: The armature d is drawn to said magnet D, operating the lever (1 and driving the printing-hammer d against the tape, ink-ribbon, and type, thus making an impression upon the tape. At the same time the pin d engages the arm 0 of the lever 0 operating to throw the lever 0 back, carrying with it the lever c and disengaging the pawls t" and i and causing the hook c to engage with the hook of the lever c and hold said pawls vi and 1? out of engagement with the ratchet-wheel 0 As soon as the printing operation described is completed by a blow from the printing-hammer, the printing-wheel c and the ratchet-wheel and pinion with which it is connected are released and fall into the power of the quadrant 0 which descends and brings the printing-Wheel back to its normal positionthat is to say, where there is no type exposed on its periphery. "With the operation last described-- that is to say, when the lever d is operated, the pawl d engages the ratchets f of the pulley f and as the lever d descends it moves said pulley carrying the tape one step farther, and also moving the ink-ribbon.

In the operation described above the dashpot E operates to make the circuit to the magnet D after the printing is completed and the type-wheel has returned to its normal position-that is, where no type is exposed on the printing-field. Therefore, when the printing mechanism operates again with the circuit being made thereto by the dash-pot E, a space is made between the type-wheel, printing on the tape, though the time is recorded.

I have last described the operation when the breaking of the circuit is consecutive, as when the commutators k and k are operated. WVhen, however, it is desired to indicate a number greater than 9, as those indicated in Fig. 9, (31 and 24,) it is necessary to arrange the commutators with a space between the consecutive breaks of the circuit, the duration of which in the operation of the com mutators will admit of the operation of the dash-pot E after the first consecutive breaking of the circuit, but will cause the circuit again to be broken before the dash-pot E will have time to operate. Hence the second signal will be printed immediately following the first, without a space between them, thus indicating a greater number than 9--that is to say, in the operation of the commutator k the space between the breaks 3 and l is sufficient to admit of the operation of the dash-pot E but before the dash-pot E will have time to operate the circuit will be broken by the singe pin or contact-point of said commuta tor, and both the valves will be raised, as heretofore described, and they will then descend, the contact being made by the dash-pot E first and the printing performed, so that the number 1 will immediately follow the number 8, thus indicating 31, and with the operation of the dash-pot E the circuit will be made to the magnet D again and the space between 31 and t will be made and the time 4:.15 will be printed. It will also be noted that the printing operation also records the time at which said record is made by reason of the fact that the ti me-belt a brings the type cor responding to the time into the field and an impression will be made indicating the time, as shown in Fig. 9.

All that has been described has been performed when the circuit is made to the magnet I) by the operation of the daslrpot E. The next operation is when the circuit is made to the magnet D by the dash-pot E, which makes the circuit an interval later than the dash-pot E, as heretofore described. The operation of this is simply for'the purpose of making a space on the tape. Of course the time is recorded, as those type are always in position; but there will be no impression from the type on the type-wheel, as there will be no such type exposed in the printing-field.

\Vhile I have described herein the operation of my device with a type-wheel having numbers arranged in a designated order, I do not intend to limit myself to that arrangement. I may employ any numerical or alphabetical arrangement in any convenient order, and in the drawings have shown a type-wheel having twenty-four faces. I frequently employ such a type-wheel and provide the same with type designating the numbers of each; but I may, of course, operate the same to designate any number, as heretofore related.

lVhat I claim is- 1.. In a signal-recording device, the combination of a type-wheel, a signaling-circuit, a magnet in said signaling-circuit for operating said type-wheel, a printing and releasing circuit, a magnet in the latter circuit for printing from and releasing said type-wheel, and means operated from the magnet in the sig naling-circuit, for operating the printing and releasing magnet after the type-wheel has been operated, whereby a record will be printed from the type-wheel after which the typewheel will be released, substantially as set forth.

2. In a signal-recording device, the combination with means controlled electrically to operate a type-wheel, of two retarding devices operated with the operation of the signaling device and arranged to control the circuit to an electromagnet operating means to print from said type-wheel and release the same, one of said retarding devices operating when the signal is wholly or partly completed and the other only when the signal is wholly completed, substantially as described.

3. In a signal-recordii'ig device, an electromagnet in circuit and means for controlling said eircuit,in combination with a type-wheel, and means to advance the same one step with each impulse of the magnet, and thus present type corresponding to the number of signals in a printing-field, and means to print from the type thus presented, and to return the type-wheel to its normal position, operated by a second electromagnet in circuit, and means to control the circuit to said second magnet, consisting of a retarding device, operated with the operation of the first magnet and after the completion of the signal, substantiall y as described.

4. In a signal-recording device, the combination with an electromagnet in circuit, of commutator-s arranged to make a signal by controlling the circuit to said magnet, a typewheel, means to advance the same one step with each impulse of the magnet, and thus present type corresponding to the signal in the printing-field, means for printing from the type thus presented, and to return the typewheel to its normal position, operated by a second electromagnet in circuit, and means to control the circuit to said second electromagnet consisting of two retarding devices operated with. the operation of the first magnet, one controlling the circuit when the whole or part of the signal is completed, the other only when the whole signal is completed, substantially as described.

5. In a signal-recording device, the combination with an electromagnet in circuitnneans for controlling said circuit, a type-wheel operated by ratchet-wheel and pa w ls, a lever carrying said pawls an armatu re for said magnet, a spring controlling said lever together with detents to control said pawls, and a quadrant and pinion to restore the typewheel to its normal position, and to release the detent that controls the pawls, a second electromagnet .in circuit, a lever carrying an armature for said second magnet and printing-hammer, and engaging a detent to release the type-wheel, and means to control the circuit to said second electromagnet, consisting of two dash-pots, operated with the operation of the first magnet, an ink-ribbon, a tape for receiving the impressions from the type-wheel, and means for feeding said ribbon and tape, controlled by the operation of the second magnet, substantially as described.

6. In a signal-recording device, the combination With commntators arranged to make a signal by controlling the circuit to an electromagnet, operating the type-Wheel, of a retarding device operated by the operation of said magnet and arranged to control the circuit to a second electromagnet, operating the printing and releasing mechanisms, an interval after the completion of the signal, substantially as described.

7. In a signal-recording device, the combination With commutators arranged to control the circuit to an electromagnetpperating the type-Wheel, of two retarding devices operated CHARLES E. ONGLEY. WVitnesses:

JAMEs L. STEUART, GEORGE J. SCHOEFFEL. 

